An Enterprise Strategy for Implementing Conditioned-Based Maintenance Plus (CBM+) Research in the USAF

The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), along with its many research partners, is actively engaged in aiding the transformation of the Air Force´s sustainment practices. While the concept of health management has been discussed in the research community for some time now, the U.S. Air Force has faced many challenges that inhibit the transition of these technologies. The most difficult challenge is the lack of a unified end-state vision for conditioned-based maintenance plus (CBM+) and health management accomplishments in the Air Force. The authors present an end-state vision for health management that aligns with that of the Air Force Logistics leadership and may eventually evolve into a unified Air Force logistics/health management vision. The final sections of the paper provide an in-depth discussion of the data infrastructure required to support both the development and implementation of health management capabilities. High-level conceptual architecture views and data models are provided.